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kagaden:
... DRIVE ME CRAAAAAZY!

I just installed new buttons on a showcase CP and am now doing so on my X-Arcade and WHY ON EARTH are some of these so STUBBORN to remove? I feel like my fingers are going to fall off. WTF.

Does anyone have tips on removing them so I can maintain my sanity?

kagaden:
I'm going to add e-clips to my list of hate...  :banghead:

scotthh:

--- Quote from: kagaden on August 30, 2008, 02:58:49 am ---... DRIVE ME CRAAAAAZY!

I just installed new buttons on a showcase CP and am now doing so on my X-Arcade and WHY ON EARTH are some of these so STUBBORN to remove? I feel like my fingers are going to fall off. WTF.

Does anyone have tips on removing them so I can maintain my sanity?

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Needle-nose pliers.


--- Quote from: kagaden on August 30, 2008, 04:43:13 am ---I'm going to add e-clips to my list of hate...  :banghead:

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Put a small jeweler's screwdriver in and turn it to pry the e-clip open.

Ginsu Victim:
I feel your pain. When I took the LED bayonets off all my lighted buttons, I could not get a single ground wire off the lights. I had to leave them all hooked up together and removed them all in one massive tangle.

Even needle-nose pliers wouldn't get the ground wires off them.

I'm scared I'm going to break them if I pull any harder.

mrjah:

--- Quote from: scotthh on August 30, 2008, 09:00:43 am ---Put a small jeweler's screwdriver in and turn it to pry the e-clip open.

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Yes! This is the way.

I used to use a pair of pliers to push the e-clip off, and catch it in a box so it wouldn't scoot under a workbench or otherwise disappear.  It worked well, but was complicated and annoying.  Then I looked closely at the clip and noticed those two nice little slots between the clip and the joystick handle.  Game over -- a little twist with a jeweler's screwdriver, and it's off and under control.

Wish I had noticed that a year ago.   :dunno

As for removing a quick disconnect, make sure you get the pliers' jaws down low enough to pull the entire disconnect off the terminal -- not just the wire or the colored sleeve.  Grab it too high, pull hard, and you might tear the thing apart.  Then you're right back at square one, but with a broken disconnect!

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